"Clarification questions:
a. Is this platform like YouTube to post cooking videos by homechefs?
b. Is this like Doordash where homechef’s can sell home cooked food?
Response: Feel free to assume.
I’m assuming to build a marketplace platform where homechef’s can sell their home cooked food.
c. Are we looking to build a webapp/mobile native app
Response: Mobile native app (iOS and Android)
d. Which markets are we focusing on? Global or North America or USA
**Response: I would focus on"
Abdul K. - "Clarification questions:
a. Is this platform like YouTube to post cooking videos by homechefs?
b. Is this like Doordash where homechef’s can sell home cooked food?
Response: Feel free to assume.
I’m assuming to build a marketplace platform where homechef’s can sell their home cooked food.
c. Are we looking to build a webapp/mobile native app
Response: Mobile native app (iOS and Android)
d. Which markets are we focusing on? Global or North America or USA
**Response: I would focus on"See full answer
"Summary of the Situation
We'll design a video streaming app for toddlers, focusing primarily on creating a safe, engaging, and educational environment. The goal is to foster early learning and provide entertainment that's appropriate for this age group. This will be a brand-new app, designed to use existing hardware like tablets and smartphones that are common in households with young children.
Identify Users
Primary Users:
Toddlers (ages 1-4): direct consumers of the content.
Seco"
Vishwanshi J. - "Summary of the Situation
We'll design a video streaming app for toddlers, focusing primarily on creating a safe, engaging, and educational environment. The goal is to foster early learning and provide entertainment that's appropriate for this age group. This will be a brand-new app, designed to use existing hardware like tablets and smartphones that are common in households with young children.
Identify Users
Primary Users:
Toddlers (ages 1-4): direct consumers of the content.
Seco"See full answer
"This is a Strategy Question, which asks you to justify high-level business decisions and strategy. There's no set formula, but we recommend proposing at least three different reasons to answer the question.
Let's go over one possible solution:
> I totally understand the sentiment to remove TikTok from the App Store and Google Play store, however I don't think it's the right call. There are a few reasons for this:
> Free market rule: We operate in a free market, and it's important that we kee"
Exponent - "This is a Strategy Question, which asks you to justify high-level business decisions and strategy. There's no set formula, but we recommend proposing at least three different reasons to answer the question.
Let's go over one possible solution:
> I totally understand the sentiment to remove TikTok from the App Store and Google Play store, however I don't think it's the right call. There are a few reasons for this:
> Free market rule: We operate in a free market, and it's important that we kee"See full answer
"Assuming we have to consider sms sent by people & not company messages, promotions etc
Total population of USA- 300 mil
Poverty rate- 10%
Remaining 270 mil
Avg members per household- 4
Total households- approx 70 mil
Kids(25) prefer whatsapp over traditional messaging nowadays unless absolutely necessary, so fo"
Debajyoti B. - "Assuming we have to consider sms sent by people & not company messages, promotions etc
Total population of USA- 300 mil
Poverty rate- 10%
Remaining 270 mil
Avg members per household- 4
Total households- approx 70 mil
Kids(25) prefer whatsapp over traditional messaging nowadays unless absolutely necessary, so fo"See full answer
"This is a Design a Product question. For this, we'll want to follow the formula for success:
Ask clarifying questions
Identify user types, behaviors, and pain points
State the goal and use cases
List current solutions
Improvements / net new solutions
Evaluate and select solutions
Measure Success
Summarize
Ask clarifying questions
It's important to get clarity on anything if things are unclear. Since this ask is quite straightforward"
Exponent - "This is a Design a Product question. For this, we'll want to follow the formula for success:
Ask clarifying questions
Identify user types, behaviors, and pain points
State the goal and use cases
List current solutions
Improvements / net new solutions
Evaluate and select solutions
Measure Success
Summarize
Ask clarifying questions
It's important to get clarity on anything if things are unclear. Since this ask is quite straightforward"See full answer
"I asked for clairication on what region in the world we were focusing on and I settled on the United States. I asked for clarification on the type of doctors and for what kind of patients and that was left up to me. I landed on any patient looking to find a doctor for "Preventive Medicine" given that the US is hurting on that. The pain points were around expensive/payment methods, access & lacking knowledge to know what kind of doctor is best for each person. I spent too much time here and had l"
Abel alejandro H. - "I asked for clairication on what region in the world we were focusing on and I settled on the United States. I asked for clarification on the type of doctors and for what kind of patients and that was left up to me. I landed on any patient looking to find a doctor for "Preventive Medicine" given that the US is hurting on that. The pain points were around expensive/payment methods, access & lacking knowledge to know what kind of doctor is best for each person. I spent too much time here and had l"See full answer
"Start at 4.01 pm
Clarifying question:
A non-profit food bank is responsible for providing food to people who cannot afford it.
The food bank is engaged with world-level food problems, or is there a particular geography that gets all the focus?
Are we interested in particular demographics like only kids or only adults?
What is the goal of this food bank?
Objective: Coming up with a framework to prioritise different channels where this money can be spent to achieve the large goal that"
Anubhav A. - "Start at 4.01 pm
Clarifying question:
A non-profit food bank is responsible for providing food to people who cannot afford it.
The food bank is engaged with world-level food problems, or is there a particular geography that gets all the focus?
Are we interested in particular demographics like only kids or only adults?
What is the goal of this food bank?
Objective: Coming up with a framework to prioritise different channels where this money can be spent to achieve the large goal that"See full answer
"Feel free to download the full assignment (with screens) here: https://www.varunja.in/blog/assignment, cheers!
Expected Outcome:
Users: What do you know about the users of WhatsApp? What do they want?
Features: What features will you build?
Prioritization: What will be in your MVP and what will be in your 2.0 version?
After you have decided on the MVP:
Engineering: How hard is this to build? How long might it take? Are there ways to build a solution more quicker?
Design: How does your new fea"
Varun J. - "Feel free to download the full assignment (with screens) here: https://www.varunja.in/blog/assignment, cheers!
Expected Outcome:
Users: What do you know about the users of WhatsApp? What do they want?
Features: What features will you build?
Prioritization: What will be in your MVP and what will be in your 2.0 version?
After you have decided on the MVP:
Engineering: How hard is this to build? How long might it take? Are there ways to build a solution more quicker?
Design: How does your new fea"See full answer
"Building a great product is a journey
Product has to:
Identify the right set of customers
Have to keep understanding the evolving needs to the users
Have to solve it in the best way possible (Innovative, useful, easy to understand manner)
Have to keep evolving with time by understanding evolving needs and data generated
Price according to the users capacity and willingness to pay"
P D. - "Building a great product is a journey
Product has to:
Identify the right set of customers
Have to keep understanding the evolving needs to the users
Have to solve it in the best way possible (Innovative, useful, easy to understand manner)
Have to keep evolving with time by understanding evolving needs and data generated
Price according to the users capacity and willingness to pay"See full answer
"import java.util.*;
public class NetworkTopology {
public int topologytype(int N, int M, int[] input3, int[] input4) {
if (M != N - 1 && M != N) return -1; // Fast check for invalid cases
int[] degree = new int[N + 1]; // Degree of each node (1-based indexing)
// Build the degree array
for (int i = 0; i < M; i++) {
degree[input3[i]]++;
degree[input4[i]]++;
}
// Check for Bus Topology
boolean isBus = (M"
Alessandro R. - "import java.util.*;
public class NetworkTopology {
public int topologytype(int N, int M, int[] input3, int[] input4) {
if (M != N - 1 && M != N) return -1; // Fast check for invalid cases
int[] degree = new int[N + 1]; // Degree of each node (1-based indexing)
// Build the degree array
for (int i = 0; i < M; i++) {
degree[input3[i]]++;
degree[input4[i]]++;
}
// Check for Bus Topology
boolean isBus = (M"See full answer
"a 3 year project can broken down into several sprints which includes the core functionalities as well as the customer excitement features like design, aesthetics and smoothness of the transitioning of different features, while handling a 3 week project we must first priortise what features needs to be included and what features can be delayed and what impact the feature that needs to be included derive and but one common thing that would be included while handling both the projects would be thor"
1rn19ec058 P. - "a 3 year project can broken down into several sprints which includes the core functionalities as well as the customer excitement features like design, aesthetics and smoothness of the transitioning of different features, while handling a 3 week project we must first priortise what features needs to be included and what features can be delayed and what impact the feature that needs to be included derive and but one common thing that would be included while handling both the projects would be thor"See full answer
"We've identified the problem as a Design a Product question. Use the following framework for tackling these types of questions:
Ask Clarifying Questions
Identify users, behaviors, and pain points
State product goal
Identify current solutions
Brainstorm new solutions
Evaluate solutions
Measure success
Summarize
We'll go through each of these step by step.
Ask Clarifying Questions
The PM interview isn't about your ability to come up w"
Exponent - "We've identified the problem as a Design a Product question. Use the following framework for tackling these types of questions:
Ask Clarifying Questions
Identify users, behaviors, and pain points
State product goal
Identify current solutions
Brainstorm new solutions
Evaluate solutions
Measure success
Summarize
We'll go through each of these step by step.
Ask Clarifying Questions
The PM interview isn't about your ability to come up w"See full answer